Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

I stare across the table at Jeremy, and wonder if I will make it through our first date without trying to kill him.

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

Humility enables us to learn from each other.

You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.

To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little I think that's where the tie comes from.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.